The public funding may not be siphoned out of library budgets, but shortfalls have to be covered somehow.
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Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2026
Nexstar has engaged in an aggressive lobbying campaign for the merger, arguing that the combination is necessary to compete against the tech giants that have siphoned off so much local advertising revenue in recent decades.
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